I have the flu. Yep the one that comes with the shakes, fevers, sweating and chills at the same time. The one that you get dizzy whenever upright....

My throat feels like razor blades and my sinus' feel like there is a ton of cement in them....

I bought a saline rinse off advice from the lovely Rouge around 6 weeks ago when I had sinus issues that nearly led to an infection & the saline rinse was awesome.

So.... I have the flu and yesterday did the saline rinse once because I felt awful. Today, when I woke up I could hardly see because my face was that swollen.... I used the saline rinse and.... *TMI warning* the cement type stuff all came out!!

With the saline rinse you make up around 180mls (not exact, remember I can barely think atm) of warmed filtered water with a saline satchet. You then put the bottle up to one nostril and flush and the gunk comes out the other nostril!! Its pretty gross....

I've done 2 rinses today and both times have felt so much better and my throat doesn't hurt as much already. I was contemplating going to the GP but there isn't much they can do for the flu unless they think its swine flu... I can't drive anyway and I've slept most of yesterday and today.